The Peach Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CBCB DBDB EBEB FGF| Mamma gave us a single peach | A |
| She shared it among seven | B |
| Now you may think that unto each | A |
| But a small piece was given | B |
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| Yet though each share was very small | C |
| We owned when it was eaten | B |
| Being so little for us all | C |
| Did its fine flavour heighten | B |
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| The tear was in our parent's eye | D |
| It seemed quite out of season | B |
| When we asked wherefore she did cry | D |
| She thus explained the reason | B |
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| 'The cause my children I may say | E |
| Was joy and not dejection | B |
| The peach which made you all so gay | E |
| Gave rise to this reflection | B |
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| 'It's many a mother's lot to share | F |
| Seven hungry children viewing | G |
| A morsel of the coarsest fare | F |
| As I this peach was doing ' | - |
Charles Lamb
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